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Intolerance & Discrimination Against the Scientology Community in Germany Today

SECTION XII. MURDER, BOMB AND KIDNAPPING THREATS


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sked about the rise in neo-Nazi violence in the wake of German reunification, Germany’s famous novelist, Gunter Grass, told the International Herald Tribune, “The most dangerous thing is we have skins in the government. They are nicely dressed with beautiful hair, educated. They speak well. But they think the same way as the young kids who shave their heads and carry swastikas and demonstrate. They encourage these ideas and these brutal actions.”

The incidents described below are the direct consequences of the campaign of hatred and discrimination carried out by the German government against the Church of Scientology through the media.

Regardless of whether such incidents result in actual violence, every one of them has to be taken seriously, demanding time and resources better employed elsewhere. This is itself harassment as each threat must be investigated and traced, for to ignore even one could result in a tragedy.

Specific instances follow:

  • February 1991, Hamburg: While standing outside the Scientology mission in Hamburg-Eppendorf, a female Scientologist was addressed by a man who said, “These Scientologists should be hanged.” She replied that 52 years ago it was the Jews, but they were put into gas chambers. The man answered “Yes, exactly. You should be sent into the gas chambers. Come with me, I will gas you.”

  • April 1991, Ulm: Following broadcast of a derogatory show on Scientology, the Scientology mission in Ulm reported several hate calls. One caller stated, “A bomb will explode in your place...,” and another, “I will visit you and place a bomb, you sons of a bitch.”

  • April 1991: A Scientologist from Hamburg received a murder threat by phone.

  • Kiel: The windows of the Scientology Mission in Kiel were smashed and the walls smeared with anti-Scientology slogans after a television broadcast containing distorted and derogatory information about Scientology by the government­owned station WDR.

  • April 1991, Hamburg: A Scientologist from Hamburg was called at 3 a.m. and threatened with murder.

  • April 1991, Ulm: The TV station RTL Plus broadcast a report on Scientology containing inflammatory false reports, including derogatory statements from so-called sect experts affiliated with the German state churches. As a consequence several bomb threats and threats to kill Scientologists were received by the Mission in Ulm.

  • April 1991, Hamburg: A Scientologist in Hamburg received a threatening letter that, “If you do not disappear right away from Steindamm, you are all Jews, then the house will be blown up.... You old Jewish mob that has survived... Signed Reichsführer SS, Heil Hitler.”

    Murder, bomb and kidnapping threats continued...



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